Choreographic devices and motif development  

 

A choreographic device I am using to aid my creative process are two motifs. One motif being centred around the ideas of the reality of war and how it benefits no one, also how peace and ceasefire can feel for like a longing than something that will happen.  The second motif my group developed was the idea of peace and the dream/hope for it. For each of these motifs we choose a certain way we would like to move to convey this, motif one being sharper and more ridged whilst motif two had a softer and lighter feel.  These both links back to my chosen stimulus “flower bomb” as it links both the ideas of war and peace. This I hope to distinguish with the contrasting motifs.

My chosen practitioner is Martha Graham and as a group we were inspired by use her of ability to covey deep emotion through movement of the body, however she mainly focuses on more hard-hitting emotions and a lot of her pieces have a deep sense of anger and passion which our second motif lacks. With this curating our second motif became a lot harder. Here are some clips of each motif (still a working process).  

                             

                               

                                                 

Moving forward I think as a group we should focus on polishing our choreography, so we have two clear recurring motifs. Overall, I think researching Martha Graham really helped push what I wanted this piece to convey and made it a lot clearer on how I would be able to preform it. Despite this upon evaluation I still need to work on how to indefinitely execute my message whilst linking it back to my main stimulus. So far I am liking the direction that my choreographic process is taking and I definitely think that I have taken new found inspiration from Martha Graham.